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From the response: > UK anthropologist Kathleen Richardson’s abstract highlighted issues surrounding material disparities between the sexes in the tech industr
by Ensorceled 3y ago
From the response:
> UK anthropologist Kathleen Richardson’s abstract highlighted issues surrounding material disparities between the sexes in the tech industry that are being erased by counting men who identify as trans as women rather than by having more women enter the field.
> Francophone Canadian anthropologist Michèle Sirois was to offer an ethnographic account of the ways “in which Quebec feminists have organized to document, clarify and oppose the exploitative surrogacy industry that hides under the guise of 'equity' and 'inclusion'”, and in which surrogacy policies which exploit poor women are cynically framed as liberatory.
This session was going to be a "terf" train wreck and a massive distraction for the conference.
- bellown 3y agoBoth of those talks sound well worth attending. It's unfortunate that the anthropologists who blocked this session are so averse to having their own dominant culture critically examined.
- benterix 3y agoThere is a reason why they don't want to have it examined.
- 15457345234 3y ago> This session was going to be a "terf" train wreck Yeah that's how they win. 'You will accept our religion or we will trainwreck your conference by mobilising a million zealots to call you names.' You don't want them to win because they're not people who are operating on logic, they're operating on faith. That's not conducive to an orderly world.